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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1999

1984

2014

Current release

2022, May 2022

V8.0, August 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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